question for the retrocomputing buffs out there: from what version of SunOS or Solaris was the C compiler removed, and when did it come out?
(imho a lot of today's rugpull economy was first done by the Unix vendors of the 1980s and 1990s)
Is my site blocked or age-restricted for you?
My meatloaf recipe was blocked for "hacking" by one of those corporate/educational web filtering companies, don't know if that has made it into the lists being used by whole countries
Say you were designing the easiest possible target to train your beginner-level ML drone on
* Big, unique shape unlikely to be classified as something else
* Radiates IR, can be seen with cheap sensors day or night
* Doesn't move
* Full of explosive vapor so any hit is obvious
Sounds like...a distillation tower on an oil refinery? From there, targets get harder
What if the problem isn't so much "AI agent hacking" as brittle IT caused by outsourcing, layoffs, and compensation plans that reward deploying new stuff and disincentivize maintenance?
If Anthropic can hide 1 bit of watermark in 200 words of output, does that mean they could hide a 32-bit identifier in 6,400 words? (Or 12,800?)
No connection, just sharing the listing
"...the Information Technology Specialist I serves as the Product Engineer for the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP). DROP is California's first-of-its-kind privacy platform helping Californians exercise deletion and opt-out rights at scale."
https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=527873
#privacy #job #california #stateJob #CalPrivacy #privacyJob #sql #webDev #backend
So now that one of the big recommended VPN vendors, the one that didn't do affiliate deals, turns out to be a milkshake duck, does that mean look for one of those affiliate deals after all?
I would include something on how to let the legit ads through, but since Google's big "pivot to crime" that is getting prohibitively hard as far as I can tell 2/2
One of the Google founders is spending a bunch of money to fight the California "billionaire tax" initiative.
FWIW, if you use Google you can put your own "tax" on them by turning off ad "personalization" (which probably means you get targeted for fewer scams, too) and de-enshittifying their search and YouTube
https://blog.zgp.org/click-this-to-buy-better-stuff-and-be-happier/
https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/
https://blog.zgp.org/youtube-cleanup/
1/2
Any sufficiently high-stakes prediction market is indistinguishable from an assassination market
Is there a name for the paradox where a space is _more welcoming_ by having and enforcing _stricter policies_ for specific problematic behavior?
For example, if a user group or makerspace has rules on surveillance glasses (must be put away in an opaque container if brought on the premises) and enforces them, then the space is safer and feels more available to the majority of visitors?
Sort of like paradox of tolerance but not quite
I wrote "last days of Fry's" in a blog post and realized I should link it to something because not everyone is around here and not everyone around here went to the store after it got...less good.
Did anyone visit Fry's shortly before the end and blog about it?
Sometimes I read an interview and my only possible reaction is "is you taking NOTES on a criminal fuckin' conspiracy?" https://blog.zgp.org/oops-all-oligopoly/
Linus Torvalds came up with two big inventions—Linux and Git—and of course a variety of smaller but still very useful stuff. But an underrated decision he made was to treat kernel developers working as part of "kernel teams" at random companies as first-class contributors, and not to allow the old OSDL (remember that) to become some kind of gatekeeper organization. So we ended up with the much smaller and more responsive Linux Foundation.
Too bad that didn't happen with open-source web browsers
Does anyone believe that the "Ocean Observatories Initiative" had _no_ role in tracking foreign submarines for the US Navy? (The science stuff is always the cover story—they need temperature, current, salinity data to process sonar data, any technothriller reader would have picked up on this) At some point it will turn out that some USN expert managed to get the right people's attention
I got mentioned in #BoingBoing—"When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet"
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/03/when-meta-google-and-apple-agree-on-privacy-watch-your-wallet.html
Birol said there was no going back from the crisis: “The vase is broken, the damage is done – it will be very difficult to put the pieces back together. This will have permanent consequences for the global energy markets for years to come.”
(Probably more than "for years" -- by the time the current disruption is over, an autonomous UAV that can take out a refinery distillation tower will be at the difficulty level of a college engineering club or advanced hobbyist)
bots that were crawling my site for secrets dot json may have a little secret as a treat
this Strait of Hormuz story makes IT decision-makers who get locked in to one SaaS vendor look remarkably responsible and forward-thinking